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Rolling Stone (10/31/02, p.136) - Ranked # 36 in Rolling Stone's "Women in Rock: The 50 Essential Albums"Rolling Stone (p.77) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[E]very element is exactly in its place. But it's the combination of pop-rock production and a band that was unhinged, unschooled and unlovely that makes BEAT great."Spin (p.104) - "[With] handclap rockers and terse love notes, they actually became, no joke, America's sweethearts. In a shocking pop upset, they also write their own songs."CMJ (1/5/04, p.10) - Ranked #9 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1982".Q (Magazine) (p.132) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Spilling over with girly melodies and spangly riffs..."Record Collector (magazine) (p.93) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "The Go-Gos seemed to pick up from before when The Runaways went wrong, replacing jailbait sleaze with harmless, radio-friendly power-pop fun."Uncut (magazine) (p.87) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[The] elegant 'Our Lips Are Sealed,' by Jane Wiedlin and Terry Hall, remains their finest three minutes."0.4167612
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Alternative Press (12/01, p.87) - 8 out of 10 - "...With JANE DOE, Converge have finally, fully capitalized on their strengths...They finally sound like themselves - which is to say, they sound angry, unhinged and really goddamn weird..."CMJ (10/1/01, p.16) - "...Liek washing your face with broken chips of granite..."Kerrang (Magazine) (p.57) - "With feral blasting, extreme technicality, intense emotion and an overwhelmingly bleak tone....[An] awe-inspiring listening experience..."12.23893
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Entertainment Weekly (10/22/00, p.79) - "There's always room for another good singer, however conservative, in the jazz pool, and Monheit fits the bill..." - Rating: BDown Beat (9/00, p.62) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...A nicely understated debut that bodes well for an ingenue. Her voice is airy, sweet and soft...yet she can set it on edge..."JazzTimes (12/00, p.128) - "...Monheit has a rich, vibrant voice and strong musical instincts..."12.20634
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Entertainment Weekly (5/25/01, p.81) - "...[Her] charms are enhanced by jazz aces like trumpeter Tom Harrell, pianist Kenny Barron, and saxist Michael Brecker...she varies contexts, singing one ballad with strings and perfroming a duet with electric bassist Richard Bona..." - Rating: B+Down Beat (9/01, pp.69-70) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Her voice is a beautiful instrument..."Mojo (Publisher) (3/02, p.106) - "...Altogther cool....she dances through the quieter comers of the repertoire with a light but musically sure touch..."11.3419
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"[Campion] shows us here the beautiful sanctuaries that word and image create together, and the reasons why life requires us -- like Fanny -- to abandon them."Film Comment 4 stars out of 5 -- "Campion's innate sense of storytelling technique meshes the strands together, all adding up to a study in passion and tragedy that vigorously holds fast to period sensibilities and so keeps an audience firmly in its embrace."Box Office "The movie really belongs to Brawne, played with mesmerizing vitality and heart-stopping grace by Abbie Cornish."New York Times 3 stars out of 4 -- The film, shot by the gifted Greig Fraser, is a thing of beauty to match the snippets of Keats we hear on the soundtrack.Rolling Stone [A] quiet, luscious, stately meditation....[Cornish delivers a] lovely, openhearted performance... -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly "[A]n exquisitely done, emotional love story that marries heartbreaking passion to formidable filmmaking restraint....Campion demonstrates her gift for making the dailiness of distant lives vivid and convincing."Los Angeles Times "[A] beautiful, wistful film....What Campion does is seek visual beauty to match Keats' verbal beauty."Chicago Sun-Times The production is modest in physical scale, mostly reserved in tone and touchingly simple in design. Yet the effect is exhilarating, and deeply pleasurable.Wall Street Journal "BRIGHT STAR, Jane Campion's rapturous ode to tragic love, radiates beauty that's at once extravagant and spare, which is altogether fitting for its subjects."Washington Post 4 stars out of 5 -- "Campion sticks close to the facts and relies on the power and emotional poignancy of the situation -- and some superbly sensitive acting -- for the impact of her film."Total Film Included in Los Angeles Times's "Best Films Of 2009" -- "This is a film that reminds us what a singular voice filmmaker Jane Campion has..."Los Angeles Times 3 star out of 5 -- "Campion pulls off a challenge that's thwarted generations of filmmakers before her. Pretty and sincere..."Uncut11.1981
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"...The performances are as original as the characters....It is one of those rare movies that is not just about a story, or some characters, but about a whole universe of feeling..."Chicago Sun-Times "The lighting is crepuscular, the costumes heavy and the atmosphere brooding."Sight and Sound "...A severely beautiful, mysterious movie that, as if by magic, liberates the romantic imagination....[The] principal performances are extraordinary..."New York Times "...Campion manages her story and symbols beautifully, and evokes harrowing performances from her four leads..."Film Comment "...An exquisitely romantic personal ode to creativity..." - RecommendedPremiere "...Carefully rendered....Stratharin puts in a very fine turn..."Variety11.1619
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